About This Item

  • TitleHoward Hughes
  • Call NumberPORT_0497
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Albert Lodwick (right), aviation executive, congratulates Howard Hughes, motion picture producer who late yesterday arrived at Floyd Bennett Field to set a new airplane speed record between Miami and New York City. The new record is 4 hours 21 minutes. ..."
  • Date1936
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Apr. 22, 1936; "Wide World photo." Retouched. Title from inscription on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectHughes, Howard, 1905-1976 ; Lodwick, Albert I., 1904-1961 ; Air pilots -- New York (State) -- New York ; Airplanes -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Jamaica Bay (N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.